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    • mcgregormedia
      mcgregormedia last edited by

      The changelog appears on a tab in NPP every time I open the program. If I close the tab and restart the program, it returns. Is there a setting I’m missing or is this a bug?

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      • Claudia Frank
        Claudia Frank @mcgregormedia last edited by

        @mcgregormedia

        that’s strange - if you explicitly close the file it shouldn’t reopen on next startup.
        If you just close npp, then yes, it might reappear if you have
        Settings->Preferences->Backup->Remember current session for next launch activated.
        Which makes me think that you have no write access to the file session.xml which holds
        that kind of information. (Either under %APPDATA%\notepad++ or installation directory)

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • thecoop
          thecoop last edited by thecoop

          I’ve got the same issue, and the write permissions to %APPDATA%\notepad++ seem ok. How do I manually edit session.xml to make the change.log file go away?

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          • Claudia Frank
            Claudia Frank @thecoop last edited by Claudia Frank

            @thecoop

            temporarily, rename session.xml - start npp - is it gone?

            Cheers
            Claudia

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            • thecoop
              thecoop last edited by thecoop

              Nope - still appears, and a new session.xml is not created on startup

              EDIT: I think I’ve figured out what it is - I pinned NPP to the taskbar when I first started it up, when the change.log file was open. This made windows pin that file specifically, rather than just starting NPP. So when I started it by clicking the icon, I was opening change.log within NPP

              Claudia Frank sirberus Gary Huckabone Sloan Ozanne volksvan86 6 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 14
              • Claudia Frank
                Claudia Frank @thecoop last edited by

                @thecoop

                afaik, session.xml gets created when closing npp.
                If it still appears than it means that you either have edited the wrong file
                (it could be in two places, depending on your configuration) or it
                isn’t in the the session.xml file at all. Strange.
                Could you show your debug-info?
                Available under menu ?

                Cheers
                Claudia

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                • Claudia Frank
                  Claudia Frank @thecoop last edited by

                  @thecoop

                  aahhh - this is a good one ;-))))

                  Cheers
                  Claudia

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                  • Claudia Frank
                    Claudia Frank last edited by

                    Hmmm, which makes me thinking if npp gets updated - might it restart with command line parameter
                    set to load changes.log file??

                    @thecoop
                    could you see if your link (shortcut) has set this parameter?

                    Cheers
                    Claudia

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                    • thecoop
                      thecoop last edited by

                      Yup - pinning the instance of Notepad++ that is opened by the installer uses a shortcut target of:

                      "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log
                      
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                      • Claudia Frank
                        Claudia Frank @thecoop last edited by

                        @thecoop

                        thank you very much.
                        Now we need to find out if and how this can be prevented by npp.

                        Cheers
                        Claudia

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                        • sirberus
                          sirberus @thecoop last edited by

                          @thecoop Can’t thank you enough for figuring this out and posting the solution, it was driving me nuts.

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                          • Gary Huckabone
                            Gary Huckabone @thecoop last edited by

                            @thecoop FWIW, I closed all open files, unpinned NP++, re-opened it with no files, then re-pinned it. Thanks.

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                            • Mutlu Erkol
                              Mutlu Erkol last edited by

                              Please Try It

                              Delete Your Notepad++ shortcut
                              &
                              Run from => Start Menu > All Programs > Notepad++

                              I did this.

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                              • Vinoth
                                Vinoth last edited by

                                Mutlu Erkol, Thanks i did the same and got rid of this.

                                Guys,
                                if someone facing this issue, just delete that shortcut by closing that change.log file and again open from start, then that chage.log file will be dissapeared.
                                after that u can make it as a shortcut anywhere :).

                                Cheers,
                                Vinoth RN

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                                • Carey Brown
                                  Carey Brown last edited by

                                  YES!!! Thank you very much! I had the same issue myself. Even after deleting the file, then I had a message about a new file constantly popping up. Very annoying! It’s fixed now though. :)

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                                  • Jey Yelland
                                    Jey Yelland last edited by

                                    This was driving me a little crazy too, so I found and deleted change.log. Then NPP 7.3.3 informed me on each NPP start up that the change.log file was missing. NPP did this over two prompts, (1) Is it OK to build C:\Program? (2) is it OK to build File? I denied NPP a few days, and finally gave in to let it just build the darned files. Well somehow C:\Program was built as a 0KB file, owned by <computername>\Administrators, and I can’t touch it. It seems to be impacting elder apps (e.g. old Cisco VPN still in use). I have a hunch that C:\Program is getting in the way of path C:\Program Files… Windows is prompting me on every boot if it can rename this file, but even the boot process can’t touch C:\Program. (This is a corporate laptop and I’ve Googled and attempted many possible treatments to remove. My help desk seems stumped too.)

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                                    • Raoni Silva Serra - INTEGRA
                                      Raoni Silva Serra - INTEGRA @thecoop last edited by

                                      @thecoop thanks a lot! I deleted ‘C:\Program Files\Notepad++\change.log’ from the shortcut and it worked.

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                                      • Matt Crosby
                                        Matt Crosby last edited by

                                        This was bothering me to no end. Thanks for the solution!

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                                        • Casual YouTuber31
                                          Casual YouTuber31 last edited by

                                          Thanks for the solution! If you’ve pinned to the taskbar you can right click on the NPP icon, select properties, and remove the changelog path in the target field. You don’t have to delete the link with this ;)!

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                                          • Michael Shelton
                                            Michael Shelton last edited by

                                            @thecoop - Thank you for saving my sanity. You’re the hero that gotham needs…

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